Intimately Related

Zoltan Hus
Still Life with Eggs
1995
tempera on plexiglas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Anonymous French Artist
Three Eggs
ca. 1860
watercolor on paper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Anonymous Canadian Artist
Portrait of a Baby
ca. 1880
drawing
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia

Anonymous Swiss Artist
Portrait Study of a Woman
ca. 1775
drawing
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Anonymous German Artist
St Barbara and St Valentine
with Caspar von Laubenberg and his Sons
ca. 1450
tempera and oil on panel
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Anonymous German Artist
St Catherine of Alexandria and St Vitus
with Anna von Freiberg and her Daughters
ca. 1450
tempera and oil on panel
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Urbano Fos
St Vincent of Saragossa
ca. 1648-50
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Anton Horchler
Rudolf Agricola
(15th-century humanist) 
1843
marble
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Thomas Hull
Miniature Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1815
watercolor on ivory
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Thomas Hull
Thos. Hull, Miniature Painter, 14 Mark Lane
(trade card)
1782
etching and engraving
British Museum

Carel Willink
Greek Woman
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Jomon Culture, Japan
Storage Vessel
2500-1500 BC
earthenware
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jan Hunt
Bath
ca. 1980
lithograph
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Anonymous Manufacturer (USA)
Brooch
ca. 1950-60
plastic
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Manufacturer (USA)
Earrings
ca. 1930-40
bakelite
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Manufacturer (Europe)
Buckle
ca. 1925
plastic, paste brilliants and base metal
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Song

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,

Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,

That gap is the grave where the tall return."

"O do you imagine," said fearer to farer,

"That dusk will delay on your path to the pass,

Your diligent looking discover the lacking,

Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?"

"O what was that bird," said horror to hearer,

"Did you see that shape in the twisted trees?

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,

The spot on your skin is a shocking disease."

"Out of this house" – said rider to reader,

"Yours never will" – said farer to fearer,

"They're looking for you" – said hearer to horror,

As he left them there, as he left them there.

– W.H. Auden (1933)